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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix readahead pipeline break caused by block plug
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 05:22:17PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
[..]

> >
> > We've never really bothered making the /dev/sda[X] I/O very efficient
> > for large I/O's under the (probably wrong) assumption that it isn't a
> > very interesting case. Regular files will (or should) use the mpage
> > functions, via address_space_operations.readpages(). fs/blockdev.c
> > doesn't even implement it.
> >
> > > and by the time all the pages
> > > are submitted and one big merged request is formed it wates lot of time.
> >
> > But that was the case in eariler kernels too. Why did it change?
>
> Actually, I assumed that the case of reading /dev/sda[X] worked well in
> earlier kernels. Sorry about that. Will build a 2.6.38 kernel tonight
> and run the test case again to make sure we had same overhead and
> relatively poor performance while reading /dev/sda[X].

Ok, I tried it with 2.6.38 kernel and results look more or less same.
Throughput varied between 105MB to 145MB. Many a times it was close to
110MB and other times it was 145MB. Don't know what causes that spike
sometimes.

I still see that IO is being submitted one page at a time. The only
real difference seems to be that queue unplug happening at random times
and many a times we are submitting much smaller requests (40 sectors, 48
sectors etc).

Thanks
Vivek


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